The Scriptures answer: God’s “strange work”, that is, his witness work, quickly thereafter to be followed by his “strange act”,which is Armageddon, the battles of the great day of God Almighty, the worst tribulation that ever came upon the world, and which shall be the last,-Matthew 24:14, 21, 22
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The time limit is up. God’s kingdom is here, and Armageddon is impending. Mark this, that Jehovah said that just preceding Armageddon he would cause his name to be testified in all the earth. (Exodus 9:16)
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 9
Such witness work is now in progress and must be finished before Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 10
From the throne of heaven comes in thundering tones the answer, “No!” Such is Jehovah’s “strange work”, which he commands must be done by his witnesses immediately preceding Armageddon, and nothing can stop it until God says, “It is done.”
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 21, 22
It is the expressed will of Jehovah that every true Christian today shall continue to proclaim the name of Jehovah and his kingdom until Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 22
Then God brought about the complete destruction of the combined enemy, thus showing what shall come to pass upon the totalitarian crowd at Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 22
At the battle of Armageddon Christ Jesus, leading his invincible army, will slay you and give your dead carcasses to the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, and all creation shall know that Jehovah is the Almighty God, that Christ Jesus is the rightful Ruler of the world and the Vindicator of God’s word and name, and that Jehovah can put men on earth who will remain true to him.”
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 24
Such is the antitypical city of refuge (Numbers 35:6-32), and only those who flee from Satan’s rule and take their stand on the side of God and Christ will find protection and safety at Armageddon, After Armageddon begins will be too late to flee, and therefore God commands that the warning be given now, and that is why Jehovah’s witnesses are giving it.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 25, 26
If the name of Jehovah God is vindicated by and through his kingdom, the totalitarian combine and all rule under Satan must perish. The issue shall be settled soon at Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 27
After that work is finished, then immediately follows Armageddon, which will completely wreck every institution and every part thereof that stands in opposition to the kingdom under Christ.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 28
Now we see the Jonadabs hurrying to the Lord and forming the “great multitude”, and they must all be gathered before Armageddon begins, even as Noah’s family had to be taken into the ark before the deluge began.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 28, 29
The flood and the devastation it wrought, therefore, was a picture of Armageddon, the great day of God Almighty, and the destructive work it will do.
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In fulfillment of that part of the picture Christ Jesus has built God’s capital organization, unto or under which the Jonadabs must be immersed, baptized or submerged out of sight and completely separated and hidden from Satan’s organization. Under the protection of the Lord’s organization they may be safely carried over Armageddon. (Zephaniah 2:1-4)
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 41
They must study to know God’s will and must be diligent to obey his commandments. They must be faithful; they must be entirely devoted to God’s kingdom, and must keep themselves separate from the world, refusing to participate in any worldly schemes. Thus doing they have God’s promise to be carried over Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 43
The purpose of the deluge was to clear the earth of the wicked; and likewise the very purpose of Armageddon is to clear the earth of the present-day wicked ones.
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That seems clearly to refer to the comfort and rest that will come when Armageddon has ended and the earth is completely cleaned out of all the wicked.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 45
Such words also must be a part of the prophetic drama foretelling how God will carry out his purpose to fill the earth with righteous people following Armageddon.
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Since the great multitude will be the only ones that shall survive Armageddon, and they being counted righteous in God’s sight because of their faith and obedience, it follows that God will use those human creatures to carry out his mandate to fill the earth.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 45
If only a few millions survive Armageddon, what may those few millions do under the direction of Christ Jesus during the period of the thousand-year reign?
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 46
This is proof that the class pictured by those taken into the ark will be counted righteous by reason of their faith and obedience, and which is evidenced by their being carried over Armageddon. The Scriptures fully support the conclusion that the filling of the earth is not due to begin before, but after Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 47
It will be far better to be unhampered and without burdens, that they may do the Lord’s will now, as the Lord commands, and also be without hindrance during Armageddon.
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Section heading: AFTER ARMAGEDDON
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 48
After Armageddon the the willful of God’s law will be gone from the earth.
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There appears to be no Scriptural reason why Armageddon will dissolve the marriage ties of the Jonadabs existing before Armageddon, and which Jonadabs survive Armageddon.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 49
Children born to the Jonadabs before Armageddon must come under the redemptive provision made through Christ Jesus.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 51
The flood was for the purpose of cleansing the earth of wickedness then existing, and it was a type, the fulfillment of which will be the battle of Armageddon and which will clean the earth of all wickedness.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 56, 57
The period of time elapsing from the restated mandate to Noah until the coming of the kingdom God has employed, amongst other things, to take out “a people for his name” (Acts 15:14), and he has commanded that those so taken out must be his witnesses, proclaim his name and his kingdom throughout the earth, and do this just preceding Armageddon. That “strange work” is now in progress and soon shall be finished.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 57
It will be finished according to God’s will. Immediately thereafter shall follow the battle of Armageddon, at which time there will first be destroyed all the religious institutions and all who use religion to blaspheme and defame God’s name and to exalt men.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 57
Armageddon is near, and the conclusion of God’s “strange work” is nearer.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 58
The only ones who will survive Armageddon will be God’s faithful children and those who flee to the Lord’s kingdom, and who will therefore be carried through the great baptism of fire at Armageddon, and who shall then stand as righteous men and women before the Lord, forming the great multitude.
Face the Facts. 1938. p. 58
Publication title: Armageddon
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